Babies and young children
Signs that your baby/child may have hearing loss:- Non-responsive when you are speaking to them
- Turning their head in different directions to try to hear
- Asking you to repeat yourself
- Having difficulties with speech and language (trouble forming words and sentences)
- Straining to hear soft noises
- Trouble distinguishing voices when there are multiple people in a conversation
Adults
Signs that you might have hearing loss:- It seems as though everyone is mumbling
- Asking people to repeat themselves
- Conversations are hard to follow in noisy environments
- Reading lips rather than listening to words in conversations
- Others have commented that you have the TV turned up loud
- You often have a ringing or buzzing in the ears
- Difficulty hearing high pitched sounds
